Upper Peninsula Area

Prospect in Iron county in Michigan, United States with commodity Diamond

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Host and associated rocks
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Bibliographic references
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10310000
MRDS ID	DE04000
Record type	Region
Current site name	Upper Peninsula Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-88.16671, 46.16667 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kiernan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Iron River(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Iron River(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Michigamme(hydrologic unit)

Northwestern Lake Michigan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwestern Lake Michigan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Michigan	Iron

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Diamond	Primary

Host and associated rocks

Host or associated Host

Rock type

Stratigraphic age (youngest) Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-88.16671, 46.16667	ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Prospect
Commodity type	Non-metallic
Significant	No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Deposit

JANSE (BRAM), A.J.A., AND SHEAHAN, PATRICIA A., 1995, CATALOGUE OF WORLD WIDE DIAMOND AND KIMBERLITE OCCURRENCES: A SELECTIVE AND ANNOTATIVE APPROACH: JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, VOL. 53, P. 73-111.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	28-JUL-1995	Beougher, Dee	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.